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Visalia’s Highland Gardens won a 2017 Blueprint award on March 10th – Highland Gardens is a 36 two and three bedroom apartment community complete with a playground, community center and community garden. This apartment community also features energy star appliances, a solar power systems and water conservation components.

City of Woodlake’s Downtown Revitalization project also won a 2017 Blueprint award. This project brought new street lamps, sidewalks, landscaping, and crosswalks which attracted new businesses to the city.

The Blueprint Awards highlight on the ground, existing projects that exemplify the Blueprint Principles. There are 12 Smart Growth Principles that represent the core values of the Valley and are used as the basis of future Blueprint Planning and implementation.

On March 1, 2017, 30 members of the eight-county San Joaquin Valley Policy Council (SJVPC) traveled to Sacramento to participate in the 7th annual Valley Voice Trip. The all-day event featured meetings with key transportation officials, staff and Central Valley legislative delegation members. TCAG was represented by Woodlake Mayor Rudy Mendoza who is serving as the Chairman of the Policy Council and Supervisor Kuyler Crocker. Topics covered included the three proposed transportation bills: SB-1, AB-1 and the Governor’s proposal. The SJVPC expressed its support for restoring critical funding for the State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) as it would immediately restore money taken from the Highway 99 widening project and other highway projects throughout the county. The STIP funding is the critical funding and leveraging component for the regional Measure R Projects. Instead of restoring the STIP, the new bills create a new program to fund goods movement projects through increases in transportation revenues, part of which would come from an increase in the gas tax. Other topics covered included relief from recent air quality regulations, cap and trade funding, Amtrak and interpretations on Federal exemptions to environmental review requirements.

The Tulare County Association of Governments invites the submission of proposals by qualified accounting firms for three (3) consecutive fiscal audits of the agency and the selected funds under its jurisdiction for FYs 2016/17, 2017/18, and 2018/2019.

The following Annual Work Schedule is considered advisory. Prospective consultants are encouraged to submit a revised schedule in their proposal that reflects their dates of project delivery. The proposal MUST indicate if the schedule can be maintained. If no revised schedule is submitted, this schedule is considered binding.